AC/DC shakes up Madison Square Gardens with sold-out show
BY JIM FARBER
DAILY NEWS MUSIC CRITIC
AC/DC rocks the house at Madison Square Garden

At AC/DC's concert Wednesday at the Garden, it wasn't always easy to tell. The thrashing sound that came barreling from the stage could just as easily have been produced by this band in 1978.

Or '88. Or '98.

Or, at this rate, 2018.

It's the same screechy yowl AC/DC pledged allegiance to 33 years ago, which they haven't wavered from in a single riff since.

Why should they?

That sucker-punch style helped them quickly sell out Wednesday night's show, as well as one at the Garden tonight, along with racking up the No. 1 album in the country for the last two weeks, ("Black Ice").

Eight long years may have passed since these aging bad "boys" last toured here, but they picked up right where they left off with the first brash chords of "Rock 'N Roll Train."

That's a new song but it might as well be old. It has the kick of the classics.

But it wasn't just the force and girth of that sound that brought on the fist pumps. It was the staggered beat that gives those chords swing, and the choruses that make them singable - or at least screamable.

That last bit provides some of the band's camp, as does the cat-in-the-microwave screeches of lead "singer" Brian Johnson.

For further amusement, there's the goofy 10-gun salute in "For Those About to Rock," the endless run of forced sexual innuendos, and, of course, Angus Young's velvet-encrusted schoolboy outfit, which just about fits his 53-year-old body.

At least his riffs showed no flab.

The crowd itself showed some age. It spanned two male generations, suggesting a kind of father/son Satan night. But, then, what better band to bond over than one that got it so right the first time, it never need change a thing?

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